The Washington State Supreme Court will rule on whether Amber Kim, who is trans, can return to a women’s prison.

In June, the Washington State Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether 38-year-old Amber Kim could be transferred from a men’s prison to the state’s sole women’s prison, where she had been housed for three years. “I feel like I’m in the universe’s waiting room,” Kim told Truthout. Kim had spent 15 years in the state’s men’s jails and prisons. Then, in 2021, the state’s department of…

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